Weekend Reading — M does project management

francesc “Documentation might be outdated” Design Objective Erin "the UI is super intuitive" InteractionDesignOrg “User Shadowing: Observe Behavior Rather Than Opinions” Gavin Smith How to enterprise software: hey I won’t be available for the next couple hours everyone, I have to study @Workday’s novel of password

Weekend Reading — Redesign the landing page

Chris Shehan_Art “I hope there’s a post-credit scene at the end of the Mr. Rogers movie where Bob Ross shows up and teases the PBS Cinematic Universe.” Design Objective HaraldurThorleifsson Sigh. Yes: 1. Most businesses don't understand design very well. 2. Most designers don't

Weekend Reading — After this week things will slow down

Josh Constine “When people ask why I work from home so much” Design Objective Steve Schoger Dark mode is not simply the inverse of light mode: 🔥 When implementing dark mode, don’t throw away the visual cues in the light version by naively inverting the color scheme. Close elements should

Weekend Reading — "This is a great start!"

storyofmyfuckinglife This could be the title of my autobiography. Design Objective Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design The iMac's hockey puck mouse, the MacBook's butterfly keyboard, the Apple TV remote, the list goes on: The quote often attributed to Einstein is “everything

Weekend Reading — Good Weight And A Nice Finish

Ikea releases free ‘Soffa Sans’ font made of couches “The world’s comfiest font” Design Objective User Inyerface Let me ruin your day with this “A worst-practice UI experiment”. Sahil Lavingia 💯 Great product design is customer support at scale. The counter argument that “best support is no support” is false.

Weekend Reading — Sparkling Statistics

How to speak Silicon Valley: 53 essential tech-bro terms explained 🔥🔥🔥 Design Objective laura olin She's not wrong: Every forthcoming article about Jonny Ive’s design genius and legacy should be required by law to include this photo Kim Goodwin 💯 Engineering decisions are UX decisions, exhibit 127: if there

Weekend Reading — The Char Dog Race

rahel aima "who is the oasis bakery spices copywriter i just want to talk" Design Objective How VisiCalc’s Spreadsheets Changed the World It's the 40th anniversary of the first "killer app": Bricklin writes that he even got advice from some of his professors.

Weekend Reading — This will fix it! Nope.

Check out Fincky for more amazing FPV drone videos. Design Objective Aaron Levie 💯 As a startup, always bias toward simple. Customers will tell you when your product doesn't do enough, but will never ask for fewer features when they stop using your product because it's too

Weekend Reading — Symbol of Resistance

Scott Knaster Oh snap! "I'm so old I remember dark mode on the Apple ][." Design Objective Why Trust Matters Short and to the point deck about trust and brands. The one comment that turns me off when I'm interviewing designers TL;DR design is